DR Congo
Kasai
East Kasai

Mbuji-Mayi

Mbuji-Mayi is a sprawling city in region of the . Mbuji-Mayi might be the second-largest city in the DRC, but nobody really knows for sure.
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  • Type: City with 1,680,000 residents
  • Description: town located in the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • Also known as: “Buchimaie” and “Mbujimayi”
  • Historically known as: “Bakwanga”

Mbuji-Mayi

Latitude
-6.1259° or 6° 7′ 33″ south
Longitude
23.5998° or 23° 35′ 59″ east
Population
1,680,000
Elevation
621 metres (2,037 feet)
IATA airport code
MJM
United Nations Location Code
CD MJM
Open location code
6G55VHFX+JW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565034
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
209228
Wiki­data ID
Q319660
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mbuji-Mayi” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bakwanga”
  • Afrikaans: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Arabic: “مبوجي-مايي”
  • Armenian: “Մբուժի-Մայի”
  • Asturian: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Basque: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Bavarian: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Belarusian: “Мбужы-Маі”
  • Bengali: “বুজি-মায়ি”
  • Bulgarian: “Мбужи-Майи”
  • Catalan: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Cebuano: “Mbuji-Mayi City”
  • Chechen: “Мбужи-Майи”
  • Chinese: “姆布吉馬伊”
  • Chinese: “姆布吉马伊”
  • Croatian: “Bakwanga”
  • Croatian: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Czech: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Danish: “Mbuji Mayi”
  • Danish: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Dutch: “Bakwanga”
  • Dutch: “Mbuji Mayi”
  • Dutch: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Esperanto: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Estonian: “Bakwanga”
  • Estonian: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Ewe: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Finnish: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • French: “Bakwanga”
  • French: “Mbuji Mayi”
  • French: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • French: “Mbuji-Mayï”
  • French: “Mbujimayi”
  • Galician: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Georgian: “მბუჟი-მაიი”
  • German: “Bakwanga”
  • German: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Greek: “Μπούτζι-Μάγι”
  • Gujarati: “બુજી-માયી”
  • Hausa: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Hebrew: “מבוג’י-מאיי”
  • Hindi: “गांदाजीका”
  • Hungarian: “Kelet-Kasai”
  • Hungarian: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Indonesian: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Italian: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Japanese: “ムブジ・マイ”
  • Japanese: “ムブジマイ”
  • Japanese: “ンブジ・マイ”
  • Japanese: “ンブジマイ”
  • Kannada: “ಎಂಬುಜಿ ಮಯಿ”
  • Kirghiz: “Бакванга”
  • Kirghiz: “Мбужи-Майи”
  • Korean: “음부지마이”
  • Latvian: “Mbudžimaji”
  • Latvian: “Mbužimaji”
  • Lingala: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Lithuanian: “Mbuži Majis”
  • Luba-Lulua: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Malay: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Marathi: “बुजी-मायी”
  • Mingrelian: “მბუჟი-მაიი”
  • Moksha: “Мбужимайи”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bakwanga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Norwegian: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Persian: “مبوجی-مایی”
  • Polish: “Bakwanga”
  • Polish: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Portuguese: “Buchimaie”
  • Portuguese: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Portuguese: “Mbujimayi”
  • Romanian: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Russian: “Мбужи-Майи”
  • Serbian: “Mbudži Maji”
  • Serbian: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Serbian: “Мбуџи Маји”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Shona: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Sinhala: “ම්බුජි-මයි”
  • Slovak: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Slovenian: “Bakwanga”
  • Slovenian: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Spanish: “Bakwanga”
  • Spanish: “Mbuji Mayi”
  • Spanish: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Swahili: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Swedish: “Bakwanga”
  • Swedish: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Tamil: “பூஜி-மாயி”
  • Telugu: “మబూజీ-మయ్”
  • Thai: “อึมบูจีไมอี”
  • Turkish: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Ukrainian: “Мбужі-Маї”
  • Urdu: “مبوجی مایی”
  • Uzbek: “Mbuji-mayi”
  • Vietnamese: “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mbuji-Mayi”
  • Zulu: “Mbuji-Mayi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mbuji-Mayi”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.